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Edited by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens

Abstract

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of cognitive linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. It starts with a set of articles discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in cognitive linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of articles deals with cognitive grammar, construction grammar, and word grammar, which, each in their own way, bring together the basic concepts into a particular theory of grammar and a specific model for the description of grammatical phenomena. Special attention is given to the interrelation between cognitive and construction grammar. A third set of articles compares cognitive linguistics with other forms of linguistic research (functional linguistics, autonomous linguistics, and the history of linguistics), thus aiming to provide a better grip on the position of cognitive linguistics within the landscape of linguistics at large. The remaining articles apply these basic notions to various more specific linguistic domains, illustrating how cognitive linguistics deals with the traditional linguistic subdomains (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax, text, and discourse), and demonstrating how it handles linguistic variation and change. Finally, the book considers its importance in the domain of applied linguistics, and looks at interdisciplinary links with research fields such as philosophy and psychology.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:

Jun 2010

ISBN:

9780199738632

Published online:

Sep 2012

DOI:

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738632.001.0001

Editors

Dirk Geeraerts,editor
Dirk Geeraerts (PhD 1981) is professor of linguistics at the University of Leuven, where he is the head of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl for more information). His main research interests involve the overlapping fields of lexical semantics, lexicology, and lexicography. His publications include the following monographs: Wegwijs in woordenboeken (with Guy Janssens, 1982); Paradigm and Paradox (1985); Woordbetekenis (1986); Wat er in een woord zit (1989); The Structure of Lexical Variation (with Stefan Grondelaers and Peter Bakema, 1994); Diachronic Prototype Semantics (1997); Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat (with Stefan Grondelaers and Dirk Speelman, 1999), and Words and Other Wonders (2006). He is also editor-in-chief of the 14th edition of the Van Dale Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal, which is the major contemporary dictionary of Dutch. His involvement with Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when his PhD was one of the first in Europe to explore the possibilities of a prototype-theoretical model of categorization. As the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics, he played an important role in the international expansion of Cognitive Linguistics. He organized the 1993 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference and was president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association from 1999 to 2001.

Hubert Cuyckens,editor
Hubert Cuyckens (PhD 1991) is professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Leuven, where he is a senior member of the “Functional Linguistics Leuven” research unit (see http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll for more information). His interest in Cognitive Linguistics dates from the 1980s, when he started investigating the importance of prototype theory for the analysis of such highly polysemous items as prepositions. He has published a substantial number of articles on the cognitive semantics of prepositions in English and Dutch. He has also published several edited volumes on cognitive lexical semantics and on the study of adpositions, including Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics (with Britta Zawada, 2001); Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics (with John Taylor and René Dirven, 2003); Perspectives on Prepositions (with Günter Radden, 2003); and Adpositions of Movement (with Walter de Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans, 2005). His recent research is concerned with issues in the diachrony of English from a cognitive-functional perspective; these include grammaticalization phenomena and the development of complementation patterns in the history of English. He is a former board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. Hubert Cuyckens can be reached at hubert.cuyckens@arts.kuleuven.be.

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